Norita Dobyns

Picture of middle aged woman with short brown hair wearing a pink plaid shirt and yellow and blue button that says “Ready to Strike”

Happy Labor Day!!

Woman in a pink and white bathing suit standing in a steaming hot mineral pool

Apparently, what I needed was the hot mineral baths…

I am completely in love with this huge tree growing from the side of a stone wall.

Also, these are the best chairs ever and I will accept no counter-arguments. www.structube.com/en_ca/blosso...

Impulse bought living room accent chairs and I don’t know if this makes me more of an adult (because accent chairs) or less (because impulse buy)

Zeus posing as someone else to get laid? Ugh, another case of mythtaken identity.

Look at the goslings in the park. Look at them!!!

“Put the noodles into water for minutes”.

Yes, thank you for those ever so helpful instructions, bag of Korean noodles…

Well, that’s a new one - completely forgot that I planted Saskatoon Berry bushes in the yard. Past me even beautifully mulched both before the winter. Had no memory of this until I pulled out the plant id app and confirmed what those little plants were. Yay more berries!!

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Tariff troubles: A rubber duck museum is migrating to Canada to stay afloat — NPR Upset by tariffs and President Trump's insistence on making them the 51st state, Canadians are boycotting the U.S. Without them, the Rubber Duck Museum can’t stay afloat. So, it's moving to Canada.

The Rubber Duckie Museum in Point Roberts is true gem (and the owners are sweethearts). Sad that they have to put up with the ridiculous tariffs, but glad the magic will carry on in Canada.

each time you ask an ai chatbot to summarize a lengthy legal document or conjure up a cartoon squirrel wearing glasses, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. the data centers that power artificial intelligence consumer immense amounts of water to cool hot servers and, indirectly, from the electricity needed to run these facilities.

please, i am begging you, if you do not care about theft or doing your own work - please at least care about our water and planet.

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Beautiful!!

Thank you, Carleton!

The thing is, it is extremely *easy* to be normal to trans people. It takes zero effort. Being normal is the easy, lazy option.

You have to actually expend effort and go out of your way to not be normal to trans people. It actively requires effort.

The AI companies sell this myth that somehow if you get in NOW you'll be ahead of the curve and you, the cool and with-it person will surge ahead of the squares. It's nonsense even in a world where their product was actually good.

groan…

Easter!!!!

I try to stay positive on main, but it cannot be overstated how badly JK Rowling needs to fuck off into the sun. Get fucked Joann.

Trans rights are human rights.

I will say it again: I think we all ran out of "no-one-could-have-predicted" rejoinders during the second Bush administration.

1925 or 2025? 1. There’s an innovative American automotive manufacturer being run by a total bigot. 2. In large swaths of the country, a marginalized community i...

"There’s an innovative American automotive manufacturer being run by a total bigot."
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Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.

Support trans rights or fix your heart. I don't really know what else to say, I know I'm not going to change minds on the internet, but I have zero tolerance for anything less.

But as long as we're talking about impossible systems we should implement, how about this one:

You can't be a dictator unless you manage to have a D&D group of six adults successfully meet once a week for a year.

I *live* with my D&D group, and we haven't played since at least November.

Indian Poutine is the fast food I didn’t know I needed until today. So. Good.

Happy Dance!!!!

Three million Americans marched today. Here’s why we wrote about one American who didn’t.

Anti-Trump Protests Gather Worldwide — See Photos Demonstrators gathered in cities from New York to Paris.

Local labor unions, activists, and non-profit organizations mobilized in more than 1,200 locations in a show of protest against Trump.

Vancouverites, stand up for transit service! Today at 1p at Metrotown!